I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.

When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you're invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it, stayed at it, and stayed at it, until I eventually found a voice and a subject like Rocky that people were interested in.

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.